Von M.C. Sprengel. Halle, 1783. 8vo. - This account of the
discoveries of Prince Henry is drawn up with much judgment and learning.
586. Neue Beitrage zur Keuntniss von Africa. Von J.R. Forster. Berlin,
1794. 2 vols. 8vo.
587. Neue Systematescke Erd-beschriebung von Africa. Von Bruns. Nurem.
1793-99. 6 vols. 8vo. - A most valuable work on Africa in general.
THE NORTH OF AFRICA.
Those portions of Africa which are washed by the Mediterranean sea,
possess strong and peculiar attractions for the traveller. It is only
necessary to name Egypt, to call up associations with the most remote
antiquity, - knowledge, civilization, and arts, at a period when the rest
of the world had scarcely, as it were, burst into existence. From the
earliest records to the present day, Egypt has never ceased to be an
interesting country, and to afford rich materials for the labours,
learning, and researches of travellers. The rest of the Mediterranean
coast of Africa, where Carthage first exhibited to the world the
wonderful resources of Commerce, and Rome established some of her most
valuable and rich possessions, are clothed with an interest and
importance scarcely inferior to that which Egypt claims and enjoys.
While the countries on the north-east, washed by the Red Sea, in
addition to sources of interest and importance common to them, and to
Egypt and Barbary, are celebrated on account of their having witnessed
and assisted the first maritime commercial intercourse between Asia, and
Africa, and Europe.
